Safety-pin.



V. PRICE.

SAFETY PIN.

APPLlCATION FILED NOV. 101 I915.

Pafented Feb.1, 1916.

VINCENT PRICE, or NEW YORK, N.

Y., ASSIGNOR TO CHRISTINA J. HIGLEY, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1, 1916.

Application filed November 10, 1915. Serial No. 60,663.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VINCENT PRICE, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at New York city, New. York, have invented a new anduseful Safety-Pin, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved safety pin, the object being toprovide means to prevent the pin proper from bending under strain tosuch a degree as to withdraw the point of the pin from the holdingshield or to so buckle the pin as to break the same.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of my safetypin as it would appear in operation on a garment. Fig. 2 is a rearelevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a detailed view of the pin itself with thepin proper being open.

1 represents the pin portion of a safety pin of otherwise conventionalform and which may include the. usual coil 2, a suitable frame or back 3and the pin receiving shield 4. In the particular form shown hereinwhich is illustrative of a preferable construction, the pin proper isprovided with two downward bends 5 and 6 which form a substantialdepression in the middle portion of the pin so that when the pin ispushed through a fabric and strain is applied, the fabric will besupported approximately at the points 7 and 8, that is to say, thestrain will come close to thecoil 2 and close to the shield irather thanin the middle of the pin. By so constructing the pin that the strainoccurs near the ends rather than in the middle the pin is much lessliable Copies of this patent may be obtained for to bend and hence thedanger of withdrawing the pin point from the shield 4 is practicallyeliminated. In the ordinary safety pin construction in which the pinproper is straight, the fabric tends to gather and be drawn into themiddle portion of the pin, sothat when under strain the pin readilybends with disastrous results. By my improvement this tendency of thefabric to seek the middle of the pin is prevented by the resistanceoffered by the shoulders formed by the bends 5 and 6. These resistanceshoulders may be provided in any desired way and may be of coursemodified in degree although I have found that by following substantiallythe design and construction illustrated herein, satisfactory results maybe achieved. The particular construction is furthermore preferablebecause the resistance shoulders are formed integrally with the pin thussaving the expense that would attend the providing of such shoulders byadded means.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a safety pin, a back, a shield at one end thereof, a yielding pinportion supported at the other end thereof, the point of the pin portionbeing arranged to be engaged by the shield, the intermediate part of thepin portion being bent toward the back to form opposite spaced resistingshoulders relatively tion to prevent the gathering of a fabric throughwhich the pin is passed at the mid- VINCENT PRICE.

dle of the pin.

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